When entering, its triangular shape points towards the entrance opening up to the garden. The main façade is oriented south. Five windows on a curved façade generate a continuously changing atmosphere. Outside a variable curvy shadow on the wall; inside an ever-varying light and multiple orientations. From its lights and materials, the project vibrates with time and seas...
The home peeks out from behind the hills, seamlessly integrated into its natural surroundings while maintaining enough privacy. The horizontal massing of the one-story building keeps the scale modest and ensures every room benefits from expansive views. Studio MM architect developed ‘bully hill house’ for a couple seeking to downsize and focus on creative activities. ...
An element of traditional vietnamese architecture, the screen protects the whole house from the severe west sunlight while maintaining a high degree of privacy. Wood, glass, and iron complete the material palette of the project, combined with abundant greenery throughout the building. Atelier Ngng’s ‘floating nest’ is located on a narrow lot (4 x 12m), typical of tub...
The project covers the renovation and expansion of this 1963 house, whose design belongs to the architects Bodenhöfer, Schencke and Konrad. The proposal seeks to respect and appraise the typical modern architecture of its time, enhancing the intention to compress / expand its main spaces. The angled spaces that characterize the house were respected and reinterpreted t...
Currently, 55% of people in the world live in cities. According to a new report from the Organization of the United Nations, it is estimated that this proportion will increase up to 13 % in heading to 2050, so that sustainable development will increasingly depend on the appropriated management of the urban growth, thinking on more compact cities and not dispersed, especi...
The title nevertheless succinctly references the designer’s guiding light, namely the ancient Japanese philosophy Wabi Sabi which is based on finding beauty in the imperfect and valuing simplicity. Translated into the language of interior design, these principles have produced a residence of understated elegance and contemporary minimalism where everything is seamlessly ...
Constrained by rigid building regulations that dictated the shape of the building, the architects conceived the house as an elemental dialogue between two contrasting materials, these being concrete and larch wood, which allowed them to instil a sculptural finesse into the building’s familiar shape, and conceptually evoke the morphology of the surrounding landscape. T...
Designed by Tucson-based architects Studio Rick Joy the project espouses a sculpturally refined, brutalist rigour that sets it apart among the area’s mix of modern architecture and Spanish colonial revival buildings. Hemmed in on three sides, the two-unit residence features three landscaped courtyards that also function as light wells, drawing daylight into the lower lev...
Arranged in an offset layered composition, the geometry of the main frontage reflects the complexity of the front boundary line, both of which are generated by the irregular geology of the site. The angles of each level of the house are precisely positioned to optimise the views for the occupants whilst maintaining neighbourly harmony by ensuring the lines of sight for ...
Seventeen months after the tragedy, PienZa Sostenible has achieved to manage more than 150 reconstruction projects in six states thanks to the support of different donors, agencies and volunteers, with the aim to improve the quality of life of people in the communities that not only suffered serious effects on their heritage, but also faced serious degrees of vulnerabili...
The site is defined by a pronounced, terraced topography fanned by stone walls that generate the iconic landscape of the Ibiza countryside. The progressive abandonment of agricultural activities has over time resulted in the dilapidation and disuse of the terraces, now overgrown with pine and juniper forests. The intervention has been situated so as to take advantage of ...
On the outskirts of the Val di Noto across the Ionian Sean, Faro Brucoli enjoys the best view of Mount Etna. Within the project 'Valore Paese – DIMORE” (“Country Value – Dwelling'), the state property agency has selected important historical, artistic and landscape value assets throughout the national territory to be refurbished and then used for cultural tourism purpose...
Context of the house resemble a very rural set up, sharing a common wall with cow shed, an open ground for pasture on other side and opposite side being old traditional houses. Head of the family being Sarpanch (head) of the village gave a very brief requirement how the structure should stand out from the surrounding as well as privacy of the house should be maintained. ...
First floor is a common area. It designs to elevate the function room up and allow the space open thru the river. Second floor, create the walking bridge to link the building with the rest of compound residence. The walking bridge connect to the second-floor terrace and its made of grid frame steel to create the lightness and blending with the tree. The interior is si...
The house has an advantage of natural and cultural background because Hoian is famous for hundreds of years old houses along with diverse and unique flora and rivers. Therefore, we formed the idea to design this house based on the filtering and promoting the cultural and natural values of the locality. Specifically, the architectural form is transformed from the impressi...
The original property had undergone at least two significant transformations throughout its history (the irregularity of the lot was a result of a division of the original space which was affected during an earlier sale process), posing this opportunity to recuperate the original forms. Interior divisions were removed in order to leave just the original stone walls; ...
The 115-square-foot (10.68-square-metre) Den Cabin Kit has slanted wooden walls with a large triangular window. It is designed to be an ideal guest house, yoga studio or study. Prefabricated in New York, the kit has pre-drilled holes and includes everything from the wooden structural parts that lock together, to bolts and even door hardware – details Den said make the...
Named Glass-Block Micro House, the small home in Vietnam has been shortlisted for residential rebirth project of the year at Dezeen Awards 2020. ROOM+ Design & Build renovated the small property that occupies an 18-square-metre plot on a side street in Ho Chi Minh City, to create a shop with a two-storey home above. To enliven the house and bring light into the sma...
“The view and how private the location felt were the main reasons why we decided to build a new home in this particular place,” they explained. What they devised, with the help of Desai Chia Architecture was the Ledge House, a new cabin build where the couple could get away from it all. An existing cabin had to be taken down before the new home could be built, but the...
Set in an upscale inner suburb of Melbourne, among historical houses and tree-lined streets, the Toorak Garden Residence is the latest home by local studio Conrad Architects. Inspired by the European garden villa typology, such as the Palladian villas of Veneto in Italy, the architects have composed a contemporary home defined by strong geometries, calm symmetries and ba...
Founded by Elisabet Krisna and Ray Cheung, Melbourne-based Krisna Cheung Architects is a young, boutique, husband-and-wife practice with big ideas for everyday designs. The pair have worked together since 2006 – first on their own home, and then on residential projects around town. The whimsically named Colour Shingle is the latest of its kind in their portfolio. The...
The house is conceived as a filter that melds with the surrounding outdoor space. The sliding doors open toward the garden and are in-line with each other to allow visibility across the building in every direction. A spacious and monumental corridor delnieates the house along its length, focusing attention to the swimming pool and the symbolic cypress on opposite...
The clients, Balthasar + Stephanie Wyss, asked the house be designed to fit into the style of the existing traditional neighborhood, while at the same time integrate new, contemporary elements. The remodel should reflect the unique history and development of the Seattle area and Pacific Northwest, key themes include: The roots of the Pacific Northwest as a place of vast ...
sustainable and spacious home that blurs the lines between interior and exterior space. In the center of the living area, a lush green patio is placed and floor to ceiling sliding doors give open views to the surrounding garden or swimming pool. All cabinetry, kitchens and furniture are custom designed and made to measure following the architectural layout. All to bring...
John Wardle and his wife Susan have owned the two-storey house, which has been shortlisted for Dezeen Awards 2020 house interior of the year, for a quarter of a century and renovated it multiple times. "My first year of practice coincided with my first year of homeownership," he told Dezeen. "I undertook the pre-purchase inspection of the house and completely misse...
The dwelling was designed by Cabal to be as simple as possible and form a part of its verdant setting, which is bordered by a park and a lake in the suburbs of Guayaquil. It is composed of two rectangular storeys that are unified by textured stone and dark iron cladding, interspersed with large areas of glazing that minimise the boundary with the outside. "Looking ...
Royal Gold Medal-winner Adjaye, the founder of Adjaye Associates, designed Lost House in 2004 for fashion designer Roksanda Ilincic and her husband Philip de Mesquita. The house has come back on the market recently, granting an opportunity to see the interiors of one of the architect's early residential works in detail. Original features have been preserved, includ...
The clients' original idea was spend there about 3 months a year, another 3 months in a house they own in Tuscany and the rest of the time travelling. In contrast to the Tuscany house, they wanted a place that would be very open to the outside with a large central space. Thus, the architects designed this pared-back holiday home around an enormous common open area wi...
The Garden House in the City, designed by christos pavlou architecture, elevates the idea with a series of private gardens that include an upstairs green terrace that wraps around the house, interior gardens, and a courtyard garden that runs through the center of the structure. The architects creatively incorporated nature into the design through an elongated interior...
Bondi Bombora House takes its name from an indigenous Australian term also adopted in Australian surf culture and used to describe a wave breaking on the cliff. The architects chose to draw on elements of the landscape and local colours to give shape and personality to a three-storey house built to house a trigenerational "tribe" with dogs, cats and chickens in a dens...
Opened at the beginning of April 2020, the project houses 72 residents in studio and SRO-style units. Because of the offsite modular construction, development costs for the units were 31% lower than typical affordable housing projects and the construction schedule was shortened by four months. Argyle Gardens is located in the Kenton area of north Portland and features...
It is covered in heat-reflective “Solarcool” glass to mirror the surrounding remote desert of its site, located 10 minutes from downtown Joshua Tree, California. Designed by architect Tomas Osinski and Chris Hanley, the LA-based producer behind American Psycho, the Invisible House is situated on 90 acres. The 5,500-square-foot building, completed in 2019, is made of c...
From the apartment, there is a full panoramic, bird’s eye view of the city and the sea providing its residents with the organic and ever-changing scenery of a rich and multi-faceted urban landscape, saturated with Tel Aviv’s many dynamic layers. The city’s aura is ever-present in its influence on the experience of the space. Its presence is indeed a crucial starting poi...
With a strong difference in height between the levels of the upper and lower access, the project seeks to define a level at which the day and pool areas are located. This level strives to be placed at the highest altitude possible, in order to have a direct view of the sea. This main space of the house comes up as the gap between the basement area that emerges from the ...
The farmhouse reinvented Casa Ry is a peaceful and welcoming home located in the countryside of Denmark. The house is designed for a family of two and their precious falcons. Therefore, the project consists of a main building (living) and two barns (one for the birds and one for a workshop) surrounding a central courtyard. A simple and yet iconic building that reinterpr...
The house, which sits on a thin narrow lot, has a front garden with a built-in table and benches. Inside the front door, there’s two separate entrances. The first leads to a master bedroom and bathroom with a walk-in closet. This bedroom is designed so that it can be used by the home owners themselves, or be rented out on a site like Airbnb. The bedroom includes a cu...
